Reading History in Antiquity: Audience-Oriented Perspectives on Classical Historiography

Reading History in Antiquity: Audience-Oriented Perspectives on Classical Historiography

Veranstalter
Mario Baumann, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen; Vasileios Liotsakis, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Veranstaltungsort
Schloß Rauischholzhausen
Ort
Rauischholzhausen
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
21.04.2017 - 22.04.2017
Website
Von
Mario Baumann

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Dennis Pausch, Technische Universität Dresden
Antonis Tsakmakis, University of Cyprus

Programm

FRIDAY, 21 APRIL 2017

09.00–09.15: Opening remarks
09.15–10.15: Antonis Tsakmakis, “Chance, Causality and Historical Narrative: The Oxyrhynchus Historian and the Historiographical Tradition”

PANEL A: 5th Century Greek Historiography: Herodotus and Thucydides
10.15–10.55: Edward M. Harris, “Creating a New Kind of Reader: Thucydides’ Aims in the Archaeology”
10.55–11.35: Marcin Kurpios, “Readers’ Responses to Thucydides’ Narrative of the Final Sea Battle in the Harbour of Syracuse in the Light of Ancient Literary Criticism”

11.35–11.50: Coffee break

11.50–12.30: Aurélien Pulice, “From ἐξήγησις to μίμησις: Thucydides’ Readership as Exemplified in ὑπομνήματα from the Roman Period”
12.30–13.10: Patrick Reinard, “Reading Ancient Historiography in Excerpts. The Case of the Papyrological Fragments of Herodotus and Thucydides”

13.15–14.30: Lunch

PANEL B: Reading Greek Historiography in the Hellenistic and Imperial Era: Aims and Profits
14.30–15.10: Uwe Herrmann, “Polybius and the Benefits and Pleasures of Reading Historiography”
15.10–15.50: Ronald Orr, “Polybius’s Readers: Pragmatism and Pleasure”
15.50–16.30: Evan Waters, “Reading History with Lucian: The Historian as Performer in How to Write History”
16.30–17.10: Evgenia Moiseeva, “History of Outsiders or History for Outsiders: Flavius Josephus’ Narrative Techniques and his Readers”

19.00: Dinner

SATURDAY, 22 APRIL 2017

09.00–10.00: Dennis Pausch, “Livy, the Reader Involved, and the Audience of Roman Historiography”

PANEL A: Roman Historiography of the 1st Century BC: Erudition and the Audience’s Expectations
10.00–10.40: Edwin Shaw, “Sallust, the lector eruditus, and the purpose of history”
10.40–11.20: Marine Miquel, “The Audience of Latin Historical Works in the 1st century B.C. in the Light of Geographical and Ethnographical Descriptions”

11.20–11.35: Coffee break

PANEL B: Roman Historiography of the Imperial Era I: Tacitus and Pliny
11.35–12.15: George Baroud, “Affective History and the Atmosphere of the Early Empire”
12.15–12.55: Christoph Leidl, “Reading Spaces, Observing Spectators in Tacitus’ Histories”

13.00–14.15: Lunch

14.15–14.55: Ari Zatlin, “A History in Letters? Pliny the Younger and the Limits of Imperial Literature”

PANEL C: Roman Historiography of the Imperial Era II: Self-Fashioning and Authorship
14.55–15.35: Pauline Duchêne, “Historiography in the Margins and the Reader as a Touchstone”
15.35–16.15: Lydia Spielberg, “Whose Li(n)e Is It Anyway? Ancient Readers and the Historian’s Persona”
16.15–16.55: Adam Kemezis, “The Magnificent Six? Multiple Authors and Meanings in the Historia Augusta”

16.55–17.10: Greetings

18.30: Dinner

Kontakt

Mario Baumann

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

mario.baumann@klassphil.uni-giessen.de